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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

1. Legendary jazz singer, actress, and civil rights icon Lena Horne died yesterday at the age of 92. [via NYT]
2. In a graduation speech at Hampton University on Sunday, President Obama called the iPad, and other popular electronic devices, a “distraction… rather than the means of emancipation.” Thoughts? [via CNET]
3. Angus T. Jones of Two and a Half Men is the highest paid kid in TV. He makes $250,000 an episode. [via NYP]
4. Betty White’s episode of SNL scored the show’s best ratings since November 2008. Our favorite part was the Digital Short. [via Variety]
5. Bassist Carlos Dengler has quit Interpol “to follow another path, and to pursue new goals.” [via NME]